Live by Faith

All who rely on observing the law are under a curse, for it is written: "Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law." Clearly no one is justified before God by the law, because, "The righteous will live by faith." — Galatians 3:10-11

Thankfully, God provided us the Sacrifice that makes us righteous and pays for our sins, because none of us keeps God's Law perfectly. In his boundless grace, God sent Jesus to do what we cannot do: live a perfect life and offer himself as the perfect sacrifice for our sins. We don't have to live under law trying to earn our perfection and God's acceptance. Instead, we live "by faith," trusting that God will look at us through Christ's perfection and not our imperfection, judge us based on Jesus' holiness and not our transgressions, and view us through the Son's righteousness and not our unrighteousness. In this way, we fulfill the righteousness requirements of the Law, without having to be bound to the "curse of the law."

Promises in Matthew

John 7:37-39

On the last and greatest day of the festival,  Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink.    Whoever believes  in me, as Scripture has said,  rivers of living water  will flow from within them.”    By this he meant the Spirit,  whom those who believed in him were later to receive.  Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.

Acts 2:17-21

“‘In the last days, God says,

 I will pour out my Spirit on all people. 

 Your sons and daughters will prophesy, 

 your young men will see visions,

 your old men will dream dreams.

    Even on my servants, both men and women,

 I will pour out my Spirit in those days,

 and they will prophesy. 

    I will show wonders in the heavens above

 and signs on the earth below, 

 blood and fire and billows of smoke.

    The sun will be turned to darkness

 and the moon to blood 

 before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord.

    And everyone who calls

 on the name of the Lord  will be saved.’

[Message No: 7790]